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GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs Radeon R5 M230

Intro

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 900 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1026 MHz on this particular card. It features 192 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 24 ROPs.

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R5 M230, which has core speeds of 780 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 2048 MB of DDR3 memory. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 Texture Address Units and 4 ROPs.

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Benchmarks

These are real-world performance benchmarks that were submitted by Hardware Compare users. The scores seen here are the average of all benchmarks submitted for each respective test and hardware.

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics Score

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1897 points
Radeon R5 M230 1281 points
Difference: 616 (48%)

Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 550 Ti should in theory be much better than the Radeon R5 M230 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 98496 MB/sec
Radeon R5 M230 16000 MB/sec
Difference: 82496 (516%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 550 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 85%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R5 M230. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 28800 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R5 M230 15600 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 13200 (85%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 550 Ti is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti 21600 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R5 M230 3120 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 18480 (592%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 550 Ti Radeon R5 M230
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year March 2011 2014
Code Name GF116 Jet Pro
Memory 1024 MB 2048 MB
Core Speed 900 MHz 780 MHz
Memory Speed 4104 MHz 2000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 116 watts (Unknown) watts
Bandwidth 98496 MB/sec 16000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 28800 Mtexels/sec 15600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 21600 Mpixels/sec 3120 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 192 320
Texture Mapping Units 32 20
Render Output Units 24 4
Bus Type GDDR5 DDR3
Bus Width 192-bit 64-bit
Fab Process 40 nm 28 nm
Transistors 1170 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 2.1 x16 PCIe 3.0 x8
DirectX Version DirectX 11 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.1 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 550 Ti

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